Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job

Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by coldtea on Saturday March 24, 2018 @01:47PM (#16667822)

>Of course not. They'd just ignore you. Not force you to suspend online sales to your 300 stores in the country.

That's because there's no threat to them. If the situation was tenser, and there was some open controversy about Hawaii, with another superpower taking sides, they could do all that, and worse.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by kodablah on Saturday March 24, 2018 @04:42PM (#16668811)

For a liked tweet? No, not even in a tense situation. We have to stop excusing government sanctions for something like a liked tweet. It's a dumb equivalence and harms the real point by deflecting.

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by coldtea on Sunday March 25, 2018 @10:06AM (#16672214)

>For a liked tweet? No, not even in a tense situation.

It's not the "liked tweet" itself, it's having come into attention, people demanding something to be done, media blowing it, etc.

Tons of similar gaffes go by without an incident as well...

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Re:Omaha man ‘liked’ a tweet, then lost his job by thinkloop on Saturday March 24, 2018 @02:00PM (#16667881)

Palestine is a good example, it can be politically detrimental to have the wrong opinion

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